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'Fishing Boat in Dry Dock', AWS, CWS Artist, California Tonalist view
By Ritchie A. Benson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
characteristic early work by this noted California watercolorist. Reference: “California Watercolors 1850-1970
Category

1950s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

'Hidden Cove, Big Sur', California, Society of Western Artists, Who Was Who
By Nat Levy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
' (American, 1896-1984), titled 'Little River' and painted circa 1955. A notable California watercolorist
Category

1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

California Scrub-Jay, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Prague Villa Landscape
By James Russell Williams
Located in Soquel, CA
Aptos, California watercolorist. J.R. was born in Oakland, CA, December 13th, 1935. After graduation
Category

Early 2000s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

'Windsurfers at Laguna Beach', National Academy, National Watercolor Society
By David Solomon (1976, American)
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
winning California watercolorist and muralist. Signed lower right, 'David Solomon NWS', dated 1981 and
Category

1980s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Seated Nude Ink and Wash Drawing by Emil Kosa Jr
By Emil Kosa Jr.
Located in Pasadena, CA
year to museum shows all over America and was among the first California Style watercolorist whose work
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, Oil, Watercolor

Nude Pastel by Emil Kosa Jr
By Emil Kosa Jr.
Located in Pasadena, CA
year to museum shows all over America and was among the first California Style watercolorist whose work
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Pastel, Oil

Landscape Water Colour by Emil Kosa Jr
By Emil Kosa Jr.
Located in Pasadena, CA
year to museum shows all over America and was among the first California Style watercolorist whose work
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil, Watercolor

Church Paris Oil Painting by Emil Kosa Jr.
By Emil Kosa Jr.
Located in Pasadena, CA
year to museum shows all over America and was among the first California Style watercolorist whose work
Category

1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Raven Skeptic, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Speeding Crows, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Great Crested Tern #1
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Alone Together, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Woodpeckers on Tree, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Loon with Chick, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Red-Tailed Hawk on the Hunt, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Can Egrets Forget?, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Off With a Splash III, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Two Tentative Terns, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Diving Woodpeckers, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Crow on a Wire, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Canada Goose #1, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Galapagos Hawk, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in Environmental Physiology
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Three Whimbrels in Conversation, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Coy Miss Mallards, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Two Godwits at Night, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Raven Couple, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Three Long-Billed Curlews, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Drawings and Water...

Materials

Watercolor

Black Turnstone #3
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Abstract Drawings and Wat...

Materials

Watercolor

Black-Bellied Plover #9
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Abstract Drawings and Wat...

Materials

Watercolor

Sleepy Willet
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Sleepy Willet
Sleepy Willet
H 30 in W 30 in D 1.5 in
A Northern Shoveler Churning
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Out Running the Waves
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD in Environmental Physiology
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Three Pelicans, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Big Deer, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Great White Hunter, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College and a PhD
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Steller Sea Lions at Sea, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bushtit on Sage #2, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in Zoology from Pomona College
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Sanderling #22, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Pair of Curlews, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists. Emil has a BA in
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Watchful Great Horned Owl, Original Painting
By Emil Morhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Vintage Bay Area Figurative Movement -- "Napoleon's Ambition"
By Katherine Barieau
Located in Soquel, CA
also studied with the California watercolorist Alexander Nepote, and with the New York School Abstract
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO.
By Ted Lewy
Located in San Francisco, CA
attention to California Watercolorists, that this artist may soon be rediscovered.
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

A California Gold Country Church
By Gladys Louise Bowman Fies
Located in Soquel, CA
"Fies" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 18"H x 24"L. Gladys Fies was a watercolorist, art teacher
Category

1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

St. Mary, Morro bay, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "St Mary, Morro Bay, California" c.1940 is a watercolor on paper by California
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Circus Wagons
By Millard Sheets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a
Category

1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Circus Wagons
Circus Wagons
H 10 in W 19.75 in D 2 in
Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California
By Dong Kingman
Located in Missouri, MO
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Brooklyn Museum and Hirshhorn Museum. Born in Oakland, California in 1911 of
Category

1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Mt Lassen, Northern California, Black & White Lithograph Mountain Landscape
By Walter DuBois Richards
Located in Denver, CO
California landscape with pine trees, snow-capped mountains and dramatic storm clouds, black and white
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"AFTER GLOW" NATIVE AMERICAN GIRL W/DOLL (1926-2019) Arizona / California
Located in San Antonio, TX
Don Crowley (1926-2019) Arizona / California Western Artist Image Size: 11 x 13 Frame Size: 18 x 20
Category

Early 1900s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

'Making Empanadas', California Watercolor Society, San Diego Museum of Art
By Ivan Messenger
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
and through the California Watercolor Society. He later taught at San Diego State University and
Category

1930s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
-known Arkansas artist and teacher, and George Post, the noted Californian watercolorist, were among
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Landscape
Landscape
H 21.25 in W 29 in D 0.01 in
Talavera Composition 1
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talavera Composition 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Talavera Composition 2
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Talavera Composition 2' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Peach Rhododendrons - unframed
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Peach Rhododendrons' - unframed by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Thin Dahlias - unframed
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Thin Dahlias' - unframed by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Spring Light - unframed
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Spring Light' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

BRANCHING OUT
By Carole Garland
Located in Palm Desert, CA
painters David Gallup, Frank Serrano, Jeff Horn, Calvin Liang and watercolorist Don Blaisdell grounded her
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

BRANCHING OUT
BRANCHING OUT
H 40 in W 30 in D 1 in
Tipsy Lilies
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Tipsy Lilies' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Tipsy Lilies
Tipsy Lilies
H 41.5 in W 19 in D 1 in
SF Symphony Still Life #4
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'SF Symphony Still Life #4' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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